TheBowMan
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Hi. I am a Battlefield 2 modder, I work with ported weapons, do some textures, basic map making and tweaking and stuff. When I'm not modding I'm hunting, fishing, playing some sports, playing other mods for BF2 (FH2 is my favorite).
The En-Bloc clip was used to hold the 30-06 rounds fired from the M1 Garand. The clip holds a total of eight rounds, more then the standard K98 or Arisaka which only held five or the Italian Carcano's which held six. However the loading system prevented the Garand from being topped off.
These clips are smaller then you would expect, they look bigger with the rounds loaded into them. The rounds are pressure fit into the clip, the sides of the clip lean in and are pushed out when rounds are inserted, providing the pressure that holds them in. Loading the clips is a bitch, I start by inserting five rounds and then pushing them up and inserting the last three. If one rounds pops out then all the rounds will fall out (Reasons why the military sent them pre-loaded to the front). Loading the clip into the Garand gets hard at times (especially when it hasent been fired in a while), a couple years back these clips were going for $0.50-0.75 a piece, now they go for about $2.50 (Even though there are like a million clips, Garands are expensive anyways, the cheapest one I saw was about $750 with some going into the $3000-4000 price range. I havent seen an Arisaka for that much and the Garand is much more common)
It is known for its 'ping' when it is ejected from the Garand. This has been blamed for the deaths of US soldiers during WWII (And probably Korea too). I can tell you that when it is physically ejected from the gun it is not that loud, the loud ping comes when it hits a hard surface (such as concrete or asphalt). When dropped from about an inch onto a hard surface it makes a pretty loud sound (I accidently dropped it standing up and it was extremly loud). US Soldiers in Europe were more likely to encounter problems as more urban fighting was seen and the clip had more hard surfaces to hit. In the Pacific, where urban fighting was only seen on several occasions, the clip would almost always be ejected in a jungle, on a beach or in a grassy enviroment and the only ping wound be the clip ejecting from the rifle (Which still makes a noticable sound but not nearly as loud as it hitting a hard surface)